Isaiah 59

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I learned after I reread and study more in debt, I discovered that I received more of what God is conveying.  First, God explains that He still has the same strength today He had from the beginning.  He has not lost one pound, He has not the length of His arms and His hearing is perfect.  Understanding that if God is the same and He will always be the same, the problem is with His people who are called by His name.  The more we sin, the further we drift away from God.  The refusal to see a change in our behavior makes life dreadful.  We tend to know there is a problem, but we work around it.  We know we have problems and we find ways to take drugs, food, and alcohol to numb the realization of the truth about us. We are comfortable being on medication instead of changing and running back to God.  We also numb ourselves also, by the use of worldly pleasures to increase sin.

God hides from us and allows us to discover what life is like without Him.  He is not doing this as a sport, He does this because He is giving us time to realize what life without Him is like.  Without God we are blind.  If or when we realize we need God, we then realize how badly we have behaved. 

 When I saw 35 years of my life had been a life without sight and the proper teaching of the Word of God, I was devastated.  I was devastated because I had made so many wrong choices that did not go away because my eyes were opened and I can now see; the choices I made before I opened the Word of God were expensive and affected everyone connected to me.  However, the joy I found could not be compared to the mistakes I made.  God has steadily shown me over and over how to do things right.  When I mess up, He does not allow me to get away with it.

Isaiah 59 teaches us that we are the light of the world but our bulb is blown.  If our bulb is blown, how can the world ever see God?  It cannot.  We put the world in such a dangerous position when we know right from wrong but choose wrong.  The impact of knowing what to do and refusing to do it is deadly.  Even our court system has mercy on people who did not know the consequences of making a wrong choice unknowingly.  If we are the salt of the earth and we lose our flavor, there is no hope for seasoning or anything tasting good in life.  Our only hope is to return to the Word of God.  Those who did realize that we needed a savior, became victims to those who did not want God's favor.  After God saw that there were some who desired to know Him but the enemy inspired the wicked to treat them badly, God said enough is enough.  He then sent us Jesus who came and clothed us in clothes that could not be penetrated by the darts and weapons of the world.  We still have the same armor in the Word of God if we choose to use or wear them.  When the enemy comes his strut is a waste of time no matter how devastating it may APPEAR.  The Word of God is protection against powerless threats or attacks of the enemy.  It makes sense, to return back to God and allow His Word to make life make sense.

Isaiah 59:1-21 (KJV) 

1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 

4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 

6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands. 

7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths. 

8 The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. 

9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness. 

10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men]. 

11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us. 

12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them; 

13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 

14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 

15 Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment. 

16 And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. 

17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. 

18 According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. 

19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. 

20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. 

21 As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.